building-dashboards
Building Dashboards
Philosophy
- Decisions first. Every panel answers a question that leads to an action.
- Overview → drilldown → evidence. Start broad, narrow on click/filter, end with raw logs.
- Rates and percentiles over averages. Averages hide problems; p95/p99 expose them.
- Simple beats dense. One question per panel. No chart junk.
- Validate with data. Never guess fields—discover schema first.
- Compute what's asked, or defer. If a panel can't be computed, replace it with a
Notedocumenting the blocker. Never substitute a different quantity, even disclosed. See Compute or Defer.
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